Artillery smoke is kind of a cool idea, but seems kind of useless since the artillery crews couldn't see it (makes perfect sense for airstrikes though). I would like to see it gone, however if it must stay because there needs to be a marker I would like to see two enhancements. The first is that it should be thicker, and instead of a rapidly escalating plume it should hang out around ground level for a while longer and provide some sort of visibility dampener.
The second is that a smoke laying device strikes me as potentially a lot of fun. Implementation could be either a single-use consumable for those who don't care about UAVs, or add it in as a low-tonnage ballistic option. Aside from the obvious trolling use, laying a barrage of smoke and having the people on the other end need to guess if they should fall back and prepare or if there are no actual strikes in all that smoke and they hug the first person through - this could break up a lot of the traditional stagnation scenarios.
Lastly, I'm guessing that there are still some people around who were first interested in this game when they saw a certain Atlas looming out of the smoke to thrash on a Warha+++++++***CARRIER LOST***
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Poll: Smoke Laying (2 Parts)
Started by Errant Variable, Oct 12 2014 08:26 PM
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#1
Posted 12 October 2014 - 08:26 PM
#2
Posted 12 October 2014 - 08:37 PM
Smoke would be great, but particle effects are very expensive and low spec systems will have particle on low or disabled; if smoke was a hazard, many players would also set their particles to low to avoid falling victim to a smokescreen. This has been shot down by the devs on numerous occasions.
#3
Posted 23 October 2014 - 06:17 PM
https://developer.nv....com/flameworks
"No particles used". Scalable and with limited physics and only obfuscation needed with the grid drawing then this could provide a potential solution. Worth investigating for the potential additional gameplay that smoke use could provide?
"No particles used". Scalable and with limited physics and only obfuscation needed with the grid drawing then this could provide a potential solution. Worth investigating for the potential additional gameplay that smoke use could provide?
#4
Posted 24 October 2014 - 11:12 AM
Still, smoke would be nice as a battlefield effect, plus it gives us (the players) another option to use.
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